Manmohan’s response to terror not as strong as Modi’s: Sheila Dikshit

New Delhi, March 14, 2019: Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit on Thursday acknowledged that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “reaction” after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks was “not as strong and determined” as that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Pulwama strike, but added that the latter does everything for “politics”.

“Manmohan Singh, yes, I agree with you, was not as strong as and as determined as he (Modi) is. But there is also a feeling that he is doing it all for politics,” the senior Congress leader said in an interview to Vir Sanghvi for CNN-News18 channel.

Dikshit, a former three-time chief minister of Delhi, was also asked to comment on the “mood of national security” after the air strike and that “people will look to Mr. Modi because he is a strong leader.”

After the air strike, Modi has been questioning why the then United Progressive Alliance government did not respond as strongly after November 2008 attacks, in which 10 Pakistani terrorists targeted a number of places in the financial capital of India, and killed 166 people.